Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop
Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
First news thread on this, with all the NYTimes story-related information here:
BEGGARMAN, THIEF: TRUMP MASSIVE TAX FRAUD, UNDERVALUE FRED'S GIFTS
One could make certain jokes but I am deadly serious: what I see is that GOP political image consultants, who are far savvier at culture wars than Dem consultants, have invaded the Supreme Court
By Lisa Fickenscher @ NYPost.com/Business, Oct. 5
[....] “They owe all of these people so much money, and they are hopping around here having fun,” Beaver Raymond, co-founder of Dallas-based Marshmallow Fun Co., told The Post. “I heard someone else say, ‘Where’s my rifle.’ ”
Hedge funds Solus Alternative Asset Management and Angelo Gordon unveiled the plan this week to start selling toys again.They own the iconic retailer and its intellectual property after pushing the chain into liquidation earlier this year.
But vendors that lost tens of thousands to millions of dollars when Toys ‘R’ Us crashed are not eager to do business with it again. “We will NOT sell to any entity that’s owned by the hedge funds who put Toys ‘R’ Us into bankruptcy,” MGA Entertainment Chief Executive Isaac Larian told The Post [....]
Jennifer Rubin, WaPo earlier today
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You cannot say a party that embraces a deeply misogynistic president who bragged about sexually assaulting women and mocked and taunted a sex-crime victim; accepted a blatantly insufficient investigation of credible sex crimes against women in lieu of a serious one that the White House counsel knew would be disastrous; repeatedly insulted and dismissed sex-crime victims exercising their constitutional rights; has never put a single woman on the Judiciary Committee (and then blames its own female members for being too lazy); and whips up male resentment of female accusers is a party that respects women. Its members resent women. They scorn women. They exclude women. They use women to maintain their grip on power. But they do not respect them.
What’s worse is that Republicans who would never engage in this cruel and demeaning behavior themselves don’t bat an eye when their party’s leaders do so. Acceptance of Trump’s misogyny — like their rationalization of the president’s overt racism — becomes a necessity for loyal Republicans. If it bothers a Republican, he or she dare not say so. One either agrees or ignores or rationalizes such conduct, or one decide it’s a small price to pay (“it” being the humiliation of women) for tax cuts and judges. It’s just words, you know.
The Republican Party no longer bothers to conceal its loathing of immigrants, its contempt for a free press, its disdain for the rule of law or its views on women. Indeed, these things now define a party that survives by inflaming white male resentment. Without women to kick around, how would they get their judge on the court or their guys to the polls?
Women with this ordeal seared into the hippocampus of their brains will vote in November. Women are expected to forget or move on? I don’t think so.
Higher interest rates and/or inflation/mother of all recessions Daggers!
The fiscal 2018 deficit would have been $826 billion had outlays not been affected by shifts in the timing of certain payments, the CBO said. The government’s fiscal year runs from Oct. 1 to the end of September. The 2018 deficit was equal to an estimated 3.9 percent of gross domestic product, up from 3.5 percent the prior year.
See Daniel Dale's excerpt below about Trump's delusional bullshit:
chart tweeted by Pew Global Research, Oct. 6, from recent poll, has link there to full story there.